Carrara is a complete 3D program
for modeling, animation and
rendering for Print, Web and Video.
It is perfect for anyone who's
always wanted to start with 3D but
can't afford the big professional
alternatives. Carrara will get
you very professional results in
just hours, not days, weeks or
months - and this on a very tiny
budget!See
what's
possible:

Click image for
the Quicktime movie.Don't know how
to make 3D?
New to 3D modeling? no problem.This is
one of the many free models included on
the Content CD of Carrara Studio 3

Carrara
can be used to make great
mountain scenes and
landscapes with fully
animated atmospherics!

Never
heard
of Carrara?
This is the successor to Raydream
and Infini-D, both of which were
very popular entry-level 3D programs
in the 1990's. Carrara shares a
similar user interface with Bryce
and Poser,
all of which were long ago owned by
the same company, MetaCreations. If
you already know and use either of
these other products you'll find it
even easier to use Carrara.

animated
texture
made in
Dogwaffle,
mapped over 3D
terrain from
Carrara

Advanced
Rendering - Caustics and
Physics based animation

Dropping a pair
of interlocking
rings, with
Physics engine
and high-end
rendering
including
caustics.

This animation
was done in
Carrara 5, but
the exact same
is possible in
Carrara Studio
3. Carrara 4 and
5 however offer
great new
features beyond.
If you like CS3,
you will likely
want to upgrade
to C5 - you'll
love it!

You
can
use Poser models and animations
and render them within a Carrara
scene or animation. You need
Poser 4 or 5 runtime along with
a special plugin from Eovia,
called Transposer. If you don't
have Poser yet, you can find avery
discounted copy of Poser 5 for
$79 here.

Note that with Carrara 5, you
don't need the plugin anymore,
as Carrara 5 has native Poser
import capability!

Even if you already have
a high-end 3D program,
such as Lightwave, you
might want to use
Carrara as a
companion/plugin tool to
make stuff
like trees &
plants.
Considering the cost of
some of the tree image
collections this is a
great deal even just to
make plants!

3D
Text, Titles, Logos

This is one of the
easiest and yet oh-so
powerful
things to do in your
communications:

You can use the terrain editor with
sophisticated skies and atmospheric
effects to create stunning animations.

Using
Carrara with Project
Dogwaffle for post-work?
There is so much more to do. Using
Project Dogwaffle you can take still
image renderings from Carrara, or
animations, and further enhance them
with post-fx filters. Here are some
examples: